extending space

[Sammy Lao]

Personally, I find moving the /home directory itself to be the
easiest. Less maintainence work.

Linux is really good like that.

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On 2011-08-20, at 17:26, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 03:29:23PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> My /home partition is almost out of space, I just bought a new drive, is
>> there a way for me to increase the space on my /home partition buy
>> creating a 2nd /home partition on the other drive and "double" mounting it?
>>
>> Can I do this on Linux to create a larger virtual /home partition? Over
>> do I need to copy over everything to the new /home partition and only
>> mount that under /home
>>
>> Thanks
>
> If you want just another directory for storage, then mount the new disk
> anywhere, say /home2 or /home/newdisk.  If you want to have a single
> partition for some reason, then you probably need to copy /home over.
>
> Personally, I would just mount the new disk as /home2.  Minimum work.
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